Hon. Scott C. Clarkson

Hon. Scott C. Clarkson is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California in Santa Ana and Riverside, appointed on Jan. 20, 2011, and has also sat on the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. Prior to his appointment, Judge Clarkson practiced bankruptcy law and bankruptcy litigation for more than 20 years in Los Angeles, and he served as chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association?s Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section from 2008-09, and on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum and the Los Angeles Financial Lawyers Conference. He also previously served as judicial chair of the California Bankruptcy Forum, on the advisory board of ABI?s Bankruptcy Battleground West, and for the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors? National Conference. Judge Clarkson has served as co-chair of the Legislative Committee of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, and he is currently a member of the ABI Task Force on Veterans and Servicemembers Affairs. He has also served on the board of directors of the Orange County Federal Bar Association and the Orange County Bankruptcy Forum. Judge Clarkson was admitted to the bars of Virginia, the District of Columbia and California. He was admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1988. Beginning in January 1977, Judge Clarkson was a legislative assistant to a U.S. Congressman serving on the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was a direct observer and participant in the drafting of the Bankruptcy Code of 1978. He also served on the first board of advisors for the Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law (1979). Judge Clarkson has served as a judicial mediator in various cases over the last 12 years, including Exide Technologies, Inc. (Delaware), Ruby?s Diners (Los Angeles), Eagen Avenatti, LLC (Orange County) and the City of San Bernardino, California (San Bernardino). He has presided over dozens of other judicial mediations over his career. Judge Clarkson received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University in Bloomington in 1979 and his J.D. from George Mason University School of Law in 1982, where he was a member and an editor of its law review.